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" The vultures of the mind, Disdainful anger, pallid fear, And shame that skulks behind ; Or pining love shall waste their youth, Or jealousy with rankling tooth That inly gnaws the secret heart, And envy wan, and faded care, Grim-visaged comfortless despair,... "
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series ... - Page 142
by Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 586 pages
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Elegy Written in Country Churchyard and Other Poems

Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1853 - 200 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey the murderous band ! Ah. tell them they are men ! These shall the fury...gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care. G-rim-visaged comfortless Despair. OF ETON COLLEGE. 97 Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, shew them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murth'rous band ! Ah, tell them, they are men ! These shall the fury...mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that sculks bchind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, V. 51. "E'en...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 pages
...their sight, Sitting alone, his bitter lips did bite." Spenser. FQ vi. 23. That inly gnaws the seeret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piereing dart. ' Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wreteh from high, To bitter Scorn...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that sculks bebind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, V. 51. "E'en now, regardless of his doom, Applauding honour haunts his tomb." Collins. Ode on the Death...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver ...

William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murtherous baud ! Ah, tell them they are men ! These shall the...gnaws the secret heart; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair, Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high,...
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The Boy's Second Help to Reading: A Selection of Choice Passages from ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murd'rous band, Ah, tell them, they are men ! These shall the fury...gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then...
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Quarterly Journal of the American Unitarian Association, Volume 1

Unitarian churches - 1854 - 460 pages
...towers " of that far-famed seat of learning : — " These shall the fury Passions tear. The vnltnres of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame,...gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart." The vulture that was preying upon Monton's...
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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murtherous band I Ah, tell them they are men! These shall the fury Passions...pallid Fear. And Shame that skulks behind; Or pining Ix>ve shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart;...
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The pleasures of hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and other poems. To which are ...

Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murd'rous band! Ah, tell them they are men! These shall the fury Passions...vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, That inly gnaws the secret heart; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And...
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The Beauties of the British Poets, with a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...misfortune's baleful train. Ah ! show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murderous band, Ah ! tell them they are men ! These shall the fury...tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful anger, pullid fear, And shame thafc skulks behind ; Or pining love shall waste their youth, Or jealousy with...
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